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Since the summer of 2015, Emory community members have shared their ideas for helping Emory reach its bold ambition. They’ve engaged with the "Thinking and Acting Strategically" process that gathered ideas for strategic priorities. They’ve participated in listening sessions and surveys surrounding the Presidential Search Committee. And they’ve completed an ongoing survey on emerging priorities on the president’s website.

Since assuming her role new role at Emory in September 2016, President Claire E. Sterk has augmented those sources of information with a fall listening tour, one-on-one conversations, focus groups and email exchanges with members from across the university community. Now all of these ideas are coalescing into emerging priorities that will define and shape Emory’s strategies for the future.

“Our shared future depends on the shared vision we have and the choices we make today,” Sterk says. “I am encouraged that so many community members are playing an active role to make their voices heard.”

This month, the community has a new opportunity to weigh in on the emerging priorities in a weeklong series of discussions. Led by faculty facilitators from across the university, discussions of individual priorities will be held daily from noon to 1 p.m. from Jan 17-20.

Each session is devoted to one of four priorities: strengthening academic excellence, deeper engagement with Atlanta, global health innovation, and leveraging the Woodruff Health Sciences Center to catalyze synergy between health sciences and other parts of Emory.

“Here’s the challenge: We have the ideas, but they are in different heads," says Interim Provost Stuart Zola. "When our students, faculty and staff come together, creativity happens. We are looking forward to the innovative ideas about Emory’s priorities that emerge from these catalytic sessions.”